New Hope for Those Awaiting Liver Transplants

Doctors use a system called MELD or model for end-stage liver disease to score patients awaiting liver transplantation and assign them a place on this list. Many individuals placed on this list die before receiving a donor's liver. New research is being done to decrease wait times and alternative methods of approaching survival. In the picture above the smaller lobe is the one used for transplanting of a living donor. That is the left side.